The Utica Daily Press of recent issue gives an extended account of the Coroner's Inquest held in the case of Mrs. George Canfield, who died a short time since in Booneville, New York. It seems she died of consumption, and for awhile before her death had been under treatment of Mrs. Reyn, of Port Leyden. According to the testimony of witnesses, the physicians had all given her up, and she was doomed to an early death under the most favorable circumstances within their cognizance.
The utmost that was claimed by the physicians was, that under the effects of stimulants, her life might have been somewhat prolonged.
She herself, declined to take any more medicine, and preferred the aid, and relief from pain, which the Science treatment afforded her. Yet, notwithstanding all this, the coroner's jury determined that "Mrs. Sophie Canfield came to her death by consumption, hastened and aggravated by the lack of proper medical treatment, and we censure the Christian Scientists who attended her for inducing said deceased from taking medical treatment."
The account concludes with the statement that the district attorney "will present the case to the grand jury which sits January 8."
